Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
A Lesson With a Moral.
WHEN WILL OUR EYES BE OPENED TO
THIS GREvT NATIONAL CALAMITY?

The. year 1886 played sad havoc with
many prominent men of our country.
Many of them died without warning,
passing away apparently in the full
flush of life.
Others were sick but a comparatively
short time We turn to our files and
are astOnished that most of them died
OF appOpleXy, of paralysis, of nervous
prostration, of malignant blood humor,
of Bright's disease, of heart disease, of
rheumatism or of pneumonia.
1t is singular that most of our promi-
nent men die of these disorders. Any
Journalist who watches the telegraph
reports will be astOnished at the num-
Der of prominent victims of these dis
orders.
Many statements have appeared in
our paper with others to the effect that
the diseases that%carried off so MANY
prominent men in 1886 are really one
disease, taking different names accord
ing to the location of the-fatal effects
When a valuable horse perishes, it
becomes the nine days talk Of the
sporting world, and yet thousands of
ordinary horses are dying every day,
their aggregate loss is enormous, and
yet their death creates no comment.
So 1T is with individuals. The cause
OF death of prominent men creates
comment, especially when it car be
shown that one unsupported disease
carries off most of them, and yet vast
numbers of ordinary men and women
die before their time every year from
the same cause"
1t is said ifthe blood is kept free from
uric acid, thatIheart disease, paralysis,
nervous prostrstiOn, pneumonia, rheu-
matism, and many cases of consump-
ton, would never be known. The
uric acid, we are told, is the waste of
the system, and it is the duty of the
Kidneys to remove this waste.
We are told that if the kidneys are
maintained in perfect health, the uric,
kidney, acid is kept out of the blood
and these sudden and universal dis
eases caused by uric acid will. in a
large measure, disappear.
But how shall this be done? 1t is
folly to treat effects. If there is any
known way of getting at the cause,
that way should be known to the pub
lie. We believe that Warmers safe
cure OF which so much talked of by the
public generally, and which can be OBJ
tanned of dealers everywhere, is now
recognized by impartial physicians and
the public as the one specific for such
diseases.
Because public attention has been
directed to this great remedy by means
OF advertising, some persons have not
believed in the remedy. We cannot
see how Mr.. Warner could immediately
benefit the public in any other way,
and his valuable specific should not be
condemned because some nOstrums
have come before the public in the
same way, any more than that all doc
tors should be condemned because so
many of them are incompetent.
1t is astonishing what good opinions
you hear on every side of that great
remedy, and public opinion thus based
upon an actual experience, has all the
weight and importance of absolute
truth.
At this time of the year, the uric acid
in the bloodinvites pneumonia and rheu.
matism, and there is not a man who does
not dread these monsters of disease
but he need have no fear of them, we
are told if he rid the blood of the uric
acid cause.
These words are strong and NAV
sound like an advertisement, and be re.
Jected as such by unthinking people
but we believe they are the truth, and
as such should be spoken by every
!; truth-lOving newspaper.